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Goeppertia ornata (Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez

Pin-stripe calathea

Marantaceae · Venezuela, Colombia · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Goeppertia ornata (Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Linden) Borchs. & S.Suárez.

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Summary

Goeppertia ornata (syn. Calathea ornata), is a species of perennial plant from the genus Goeppertia in the family known as the prayer plants. It is native to Colombia and Venezuela. This species belongs to the group of Goeppertia called the Ornata Group.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Goeppertia ornata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Goeppertia

Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently assigned to Calathea. It was first described by Nees von Esenbeck in 1831, who erroneously erected another genus Goeppertia in 1836, which has now been synonymized with Endlicheria. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Goeppertia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Goeppertia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “wet tropical”.

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How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Goeppertia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVenezuela, Colombia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 10 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Dinkum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Fuzzform at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Goeppertia 48 in the reference

Goeppertia aemula Marantaceae Goeppertia albertii Goeppertia albertii Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizGoeppertia allouia Goeppertia allouia Guinea arrowroot Photo: CC0, author not stated Goeppertia argyraea Marantaceae Goeppertia argyrophylla Goeppertia argyrophylla Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, B. PhalanGoeppertia bachemiana Goeppertia bachemiana Marantaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James SteakleyGoeppertia burle-marxii Goeppertia burle-marxii Marantaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIGoeppertia concinna Goeppertia concinna Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Magucination GuzmánGoeppertia crocata Goeppertia crocata Eternal Flame Photo: CC BY, Martin VallejosGoeppertia cylindrica Goeppertia cylindrica Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesGoeppertia ecuadoriana Goeppertia ecuadoriana Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Frank DietzeGoeppertia elliptica Goeppertia elliptica Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Gerry van Tonder all 49 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Calathea arrecta; Calathea ornata; Calathea ornata var. albolineata; Calathea ornata var. roseolineata; Maranta albolineata and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Marantaceae
Described by
(Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez
Native to
Venezuela, Colombia
Wild records
3 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 7977204 is Goeppertia ornata (Linden) Borchs. & S.Suárez; the page links Kew's Goeppertia ornata (Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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